Representation In Portugal Research Articles

Perfil e representação de trabalhadores de plataformas digitais em Portugal

Working on digital platforms is a new form of work that, in Portugal, has not yet defined a regulated model of labour relations. This article analyses the worker profiles of various digital work platforms and their collective representation in Portugal. The diversity found in the case studies of worker profiles from each platform explains, in part, the lack of interest of labour movements in representing them. The type of tasks and the workplace contributes to the lack of interest in the search for collective representatives and demonstrates the (mis)alignments that occurred between workers and possible representatives. There is also potential for other alignments between the interests of different workers, trade union movements and associations of alternative representation

Knowledge Management in Projects

Knowledge transfer in project-based organizations has been recognized as a productivity and economic growth promoter that is currently not properly managed. Therefore, it is critical to investigate the importance of knowledge regarding its acquisition, use, and transfer across all departments of an organization. The main objective of this work was to evaluate how modern organizations from different business sectors manage and share their knowledge by following the knowledge management and transfer life cycles when developing their projects. Organizational surveys were performed to project managers working in project management within in multiple Portuguese industries (or with representation in Portugal) from multiple business sectors and holding different hierarchical positions. The present study revealed that most companies can identify, capture, and retain the relevant knowledge, and apply it to the development of other projects. Thus, the importance of implementing the knowledge management transfer to other projects is crucial for successful project implementation and management.

Notas sobre Uma dramaturgia da violência: os filmes de João Canijo

Interessada nas representações da identidade portuguesa a partir dos filmes do cineasta João Canijo, a obra Uma dramaturgia da violência oferece uma revisão da literatura no campo dos estudos identitários nacionais, com destaque para conceitos dos filósofos Eduardo Lourenço e José Gil. A partir disso e de análises narrativas e estéticas de oito longas-metragens de ficção e um documentário de Canijo, é teorizada uma “dramaturgia da violência” como reflexo de um Portugal contemporâneo.

Unfavourable representations of touristic places: the cautionary tale of late twentieth century travel writing on Portugal

ABSTRACT Travel writing, an important influence on tourism, is often criticized as hegemonic/colonial by postcolonial studies. This study notes that postcolonial studies invariably solely search for such intentions in representations of societies. A critique of such approach is made by analysing travel writing texts where a postcolonial approach would find hegemonic/colonial intentions, while such intentions are likely absent. This is done by showing that travel writing representations of Portugal (an important tourist destination for tourism which tourism is very significant) are similar to social science representations of the country. These are to a great extent produced by Southern European and Portuguese scientists, making underlying hegemonic/colonial intentions unlikely. It is concluded that the attribution of such intentions to travel writing and other discourses by postcolonial studies should be rethought. One should therefore be careful in using postcolonial studies findings. An alternative mechanism underlying the production of unfavourable representations is proposed that may generate unfavourable representations even when producers of representations do not hold prejudiced views, with crucial implications on tourism and cultural identity.

Mapas Nabais Conde: catalogação do Fundo

Em 2011, a Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra adquiriu a Coleção de Mapas Nabais Conde. Após a digitalização dos 1191 mapas, iniciou-se o seu tratamento técnico, que decorreu entre janeiro de 2017 e janeiro de 2018. Terminado o tratamento técnico e analisando a coleção, pode-se observar que, no que concerne à época de publicação, o século XVIII é o mais representado, da mesma forma que o Reino Unido, a França e a Holanda são os países de onde procede a maioria dos editores/impressores. O mapa mais valioso é um mapa de Portugal segundo Álvaro Seco, datado de 1560, e orientado a Ocidente. Grande parte dos mapas são representações de Portugal. Além dos mapas encontramos ainda cartas náuticas, assim como inúmeras imagens que representam vistas de cidades. Quanto ao tratamento catalográfico, foi usada a ISBD (edição consolidada); o Fundo foi classificado com a Classificação Decimal Universal e indexado com termos de indexação da base de dados Millennium da Universidade de Coimbra.

Language learners’ representations of Portugal: implications for culture teaching / Las representaciones de Portugal de los estudiantes de portugués: implicaciones en la enseñanza de aspectos culturales

This pedagogically-oriented study investigated cultural representations of Portugal held by 29 learners of Portuguese in a large public university in Malaysia. The main purpose of this study was to demonstrate how these representations could be employed for teaching the cultural component of the Portuguese language programme. During the content analysis, representations of Portugal provided by the respondents were divided into 11 categories. The study then assessed salience and favourability of each category of images. The findings revealed that the language learners’ representations of Portugal were for the most part positive. The images referring to Portuguese people formed the largest and most salient category. Overall, the students’ representations of Portugal tended to be simplistic and included ubiquitous stereotypes. A discussion of pedagogical implications arising from these findings concludes the article.

Representation in times of crisis: deputy–voter congruence on views of representation in Portugal

This article compares how Portuguese voters and deputies evaluated the role of legislators and the representation process before and after the economic crisis (2008 and 2012, respectively). It makes use of a set of six issues characterising two views of representation: one institutional–independent and another participatory–mandatory. It also includes an analysis of two core policy issues. The research draws upon surveys of Portuguese voters and deputies carried out in 2008 and 2012. Findings reveal significant changes in the patterns of representation, a tendency for greater deputy–voter correspondence on the issues of representation, and lesser correspondence among government parties on core policy issues. Finally, voters’ views of representation seem equally significant when explaining levels of congruence both before and after the crisis.

Social Determinants of Health in Pregnancy, Postpartum and early Motherhood: the impact of Migration

The present investigation sought to establish itself as an interface between Public Health and Social Medicine. Its main purpose relied in assessing theoretical inequalities in access, utilization and quality of maternal health care in immigrant recent mothers and its interaction with social determinants of health. The underlying research plan was designed to explore specific clinical, individual and social determinants in maternal health (during pregnancy and postpartum). Another specific goal is the assessment of access, utilization and quality of the received care (adequacy and satisfaction of responses offered by the public health system), establishing a comparison between health status, perceptions and needs of immigrant and native women in the same conditions and motherhood stages. Data was collected in all reference hospitals and several civilian associations of Porto metropolitan area, to better reach the targeted population: recent immigrant mothers from the countries with the highest representation in Portugal at the date (Brazil, African countries of Portuguese speaking and Eastern European countries), as well as Portuguese women (for comparison). To accomplish the defined objectives, three studies were performed using data obtained in all defined backgrounds, following different methodological approaches and designs (qualitative and quantitative strategies).

Ideological Representation in Portugal: MPs'–Electors' Linkages in Terms of Left–Right Placement and Substantive Meaning

In the literature elite–mass congruence is usually measured in terms of either issue preferences or left–right self-placement. The two forms of congruence are only occasionally used together and are seldom used with the purpose of seeing if levels of congruence were similar. With this intention Portugal is used as an extreme case (due to its low level of clarity regarding party policy alternatives, and its relatively low levels of education, media exposure and political interest). It was found that in many situations the results for MPs–mass congruence were different depending on the use of left–right self-placement or substantive issue preferences.

Parliamentary representation in Portugal: Ddeputies’ focus and style of representation

Most of the empirical research on political representation has either focused on the analysis of descriptive representation, or on policy or ideological correspondence between voters and MPs. Only occasionally research has paid attention to what are the representatives' attitudes towards political representation, or to the type of relationship they establish with their voters and parties in this regard. By exploring the attitudes and behaviour of Portuguese deputies towards their role as representatives, using data from 2008, this article intends to contribute to filling that gap in the literature. Although mainly descriptive, the article also intends to unravel the individual determinants for the focus and style of representation. The findings suggest that the party is the main reference in representational relationships in Portugal, and that the factors that best explain the focus and style of representation are the deputies' immediate political goals.

Towards a Trustee Model? Parliamentary Representation in the Internet Era: The Portuguese Case

This article considers whether new media have shifted the focus and style of parliamentary representation in Portugal. The Portuguese case is an interesting one to look at because it has been characterised by a strong responsible party model and very distant MP–Citizens relationships. The system is characterised by a heavily party-based parliament where individual MPs have little say and constituencies little meaning. Drawing on interviews with MPs and content analysis of websites of parliament, parliamentary groups and MPs, the article concludes that over time, the online presence of Portuguese party groups replicates the offline delegate style of representation. At the margins, however, individual MPs from the two main parties have created their own websites, providing some evidence of a move away from a pure responsible party model of representation towards a trustee model. Bringing together theories on the nature of parliamentary representation and on the effects of internet on politics, the article explores an evidence-based case study.

“Como é linda a minha aldeia”: o papel dos gêneros musicais massivos na construção de uma imagem mítica de Portugal

O objetivo deste paper é investigar em que medida alguns gêneros musicais populares massivos e midiáticos atuaram no sentido de reforçar uma determinada imagem mítica de Portugal, associada à condição de destino turístico ou direcionada à comunidade migrante residente no exterior, sobretudo durante a última década do Salazarismo (1964-1974) e também ao longo do decênio posterior. Inicialmente, busco estabelecer uma conexão entre o imaginário simbólico consagrado nessa época e as representações hegemônicas sobre Portugal que hoje circulam nas revistas e cadernos de turismo, notadamente naqueles cujo foco é a capital Lisboa. Em um segundo momento, tendo em vista nosso (des)conhecimento da produção musical portuguesa contemporânea, discuto como a predominância de formatos enquadrados naquilo que se consagrou como nacional-cançonetismo está intimamente relacionada à perpetuação de alguns “recortes” estereotipizantes sobre Portugal, associada, quase sempre, a iniciativas de caráter político e mercadológico.

Party Political Representation in Portugal

This study analyses the degree to which Portuguese parties represent their electorates. In this instance, representation is measured by the degree of congruence between those who vote and those who are elected. The analysis has two dimensions: ideological positioning and attitudes towards democracy. On the first dimension, it appears that, compared to the voters, the parliamentary elite is ideologically more extreme. On the second dimension, one finds that elites are more favourable towards democracy than the electorates they represent.

Imagens e figuras de um rei sonhador: representações do milagre de Ourique e do juramento de Afonso Henriques no século XVII

O artigo analisa a iconografia do Milagre de Ourique, a partir do Juramento de Afonso Henriques, observando a questão da representação dos sonhos em imagens no século XVII. Busca traçar as tópicas e exemplos principais que fundamentaram a iconografia do Milagre bem como da representação dos sonhos em Portugal.

FRAMING PORTUGAL: Representational Dynamics

Existing research on the representation of tourism destinations by the mass media has primarily focused on the ideological implications of advertising messages. This study adopts framing analysis to determine the representational dynamics utilized in travel articles. The purpose of this study is to identify the frames used in the selected American newspapers— New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today—travel sections’ coverage of tourism in Portugal. As such, this study identifies and discusses some of the general narrative characteristics, as well representations of Portugal and the Portuguese. Findings suggest two types of frames: traditional and contemporary. Their sociocultural significance and implications are discussed.